East Restaurant - Thai / Japanese / Korean / Chinese / Malaysian / Singaporean / Indonesian / Vietnamese, and more — Restaurant in England

Used to be my favourite restaurant in Peterborough but things have changed.

I came on Friday 4th August with my partner and we were a few mins late for our booking - however we called ahead to tell the restaurant and the man on the phone was friendly and said not to worry that will be fine.

When we arrived, the entrance was cramped with Deliveroo and Just Eat drivers - this isn't the experience you want when you come to a restaurant like this. Aside from that, the woman checking guests in was rude. She was cold and doesn't greet guests in a friendly manner. As I said, I know we weren't punctual but we had let the restaurant know.

When we sat down to order, the menus given to us were sticky and dirty. We ordered drinks and the waitress taking our order was friendly. Our drinks came and we ordered our starters and mains. When drinks were finished the empty glasses sat on the table for ages. We weren't offered another drink and had to call over staff when we wanted to order again.

The food we ordered was: Turmeric Chicken Wings, Steamed Dumplings, Beef Rendang and Beef Gang Phed. The starters tasted ok but those chicken wings looked unappetising and also didn't taste of turmeric at all. For mains, the rendang was good but the gang phed was disappointing. The meat in the gang phed was tough and overall I didn't enjoy the curry.

I think for the price of the meals I would expect a lot better. East cannot rely on just being in a great location because of Charters anymore. I was disappointed in the food and service. It's unlikely I'll be visiting again here soon. I'm saddened because as I said, this used to be my...

Stopped in Peterborough for the weekend when visiting for an away game. My wife & I came to eat at East one evening and it was superb. We’ve had plenty of Chinese meals before but never really had Thai, Korean, Japanese etc, etc food before so was a bit baffled what to order for ourselves. The menu range is a decent size. We took the easy option in the end & went for sharing menu A for a minimum of 2 guests (£28.50 pp). What a choice we made. The starters were superb & the Heavenly Beef was absolutely beautiful, Chicken Satay, Char Sui Pork Ribs & another pleasant surprise were the Sweetcorn Croquettes. The main course was equally as nice as well. You can tell straight away how much passion & experience has gone into making the food here. Maybe the only slight criticism would be the amount of rice we had each. The Thai red curry was quite saucy so a bit more rice to mix in wouldn’t have gone a miss, but having said that we were both stuff at the end regardless after having a choice of dessert each as well. Also had a pint of Staropramen to help wash it all down. If we’re ever in the area we’ll definitely be stopping here again. I honestly think it’s the best East Asian food I’ve ever had. It was honestly a pleasure eating there. It’s a lovely setting for a meal as well & there’s plenty of parking just...

We came last night as a group of 4pm. It was quite busy, but the service did not disappoint. The staff were very friendly and constantly asking if we needed any more drinks/if everything was okay with our food.

I had the tempura prawns as a starter, which had lots of flavour. The batter wasn’t greasy which was great. We then shared the quarter duck between the 4 of us, which was plenty. I had the crispy chilli beef, it wasn’t too crispy and overdone, it tasted fresh as sometimes this isn’t the case when you get it from a takeaway.

The meal (and drinks as we had 3 rounds of alcoholic drinks each) cost us £215, which for 3 courses and the drinks in a nice restaurant is very reasonable! I’ve been to many upper end chain restaurants and paid more and both the service and food haven’t been as nice! Will be coming back for sure, it’s all about supporting local business in this climate so I would...